"Rick" wrote in message
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jps wrote:

Just like in Moscow.

As a member of the generation that grew up during the darkest years of
the "cold war" I remember the daily doses of propaganda that propped up
the likes of J.Edgar and his ilk.

It simply amazes me when I hear representatives of our current crop of
sorry excuses for leaders spouting the same things their predecessors
used to claim were reasons to fear and hate the "godless commies" who
threatened our freedom.

I believe the only reading any of those fascist wannabes have ever read
is the "Kremlin Handbook of Propaganda and Civil Disinformation" They
have mastered it.

Rick


There's another period that bears comparison and that's Orwell's 1984 (or,
more accurately, England 1948). Bush's presidency will be historically
revealed as Karl Rove's Big Brother communications experiment. He's proven
the methodology still works as well as ever. One can only hope it's just
another outbreak and something will slap us back to consciousness.